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History Quiz

Week of August 3, 2000

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1. What was the name of the ship that Roald Amundsen traveled in to make his historic voyage to the South Pole?
Fram
Nautilus
Polheim
Oslo

2. What cartoonist introduced the "Mutt and Jeff" comic strip in 1907?

Rudolph Dirks
Bill Mauldin
Bud Fisher
Frank King

3. Who "marched on Rome" on October 24, 1922?

Adolf Hitler
Paolo Boselli
Pietro Badoglio
Benito Mussolini

4. When was the planet Pluto discovered?

1930
1940
1950
1960

5. Marxist Salvador Allende Gossens, a member of the Socialist Party, was president of what country from 1970 to 1973?

Argentina
Chile
Cuba
Guatemala

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